My Writing Experiences My experiences in writing have been minimal. I have only learned the basics of writing, like putting together sentences, forming paragraphs with sentences, and things like that. Since I have been taking college English, I can tell my writing has improved a lot. In the future, I hope to be able to improve tremendously at writing essays, paragraphs, research papers, documents, and stories so that I have very little to no errors with drafting and final products. I predict I will be a well rounded writer when I graduate from college.

Writing in the past started in kindergarten. My teacher taught me how to write my name over and over until I could write it with no errors. All through elementary my teachers taught me to put together words to form sentences. I was also taught how to correctly write sentences so that I did not have any run-ons or fragments only clean, complete, and well put together sentences. Eventually in Jr. High and High school I was able to use what I had learned in previous years to write paragraphs, term papers, and research papers for my English teachers as a grade. Everything that I had learned in school helped me to be able to write resumes for jobs in my adult life. It is very important that my resumes be very well written and that my words are professional. Employers look at how well resumes are worded and how well it is put together. That has a huge effect on getting a job. If the employer sees that I can not write or I use words that are not professional that could cost me the job I was trying to get. My writing has been very basic up until this point I hope to gain the knowledge of great writing from this point on.

I have many writing needs that I need to improve on and goals that I want to accomplish while in college. A few of them consist of being able to organize my thoughts so they make sense. I need to be able to write papers so that they can be understood by my readers and that they all tie in together...

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